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and where words come from..........
Tell me what these words mean and trust me, I'm only making fun of myself 
*farn
*dootcher
*impatikler
*Jawjuh
*Norlins
*meerfuraminit
*tarred
*ferme
*ninnyhammer
*churchyard cough
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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Churchyard cough is what I know of as a graveyard cough - the cough of a person who sounds as if he terminally ill from lung disease.
I haven't met the other terms before.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Some random guesses:
>*farn
farm? foreign?
>*dootcher
something her. Teach her?
>*impatikler
In particular
>*Jawjuh
Georgia
>*Norlins
New Orleans. Sounds like a holiday camp, though (Butlins)
>*meerfuraminit
Come here for a minute
>*tarred
Black sticky stuff you put on roads
>*ferme
French for "farm". Or "for me"?
>*ninnyhammer
No idea. Sounds googleable, though. Ah, yes -- "simpleton"
>*churchyard cough
A smoker's cough?
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Jamie, I'm still intrigued by the meanings of the following words! 
- farn (is that "foreign"?)
- dootcher (no idea)
- tarred (no idea)
- ferme (no idea, unless it's "for me")
I always like to think I pronounce words how they're written. Even so, there's something distinctly cut-glass about my accent (it may be what Americans expect the English to sound like, but honestly, most English people sound nothing like me). In modern Britain it's becoming better to have a generic "estuary-English" accent, or a regional accent. (Light Scottish accents are best of all, apparently.) People make fun of you otherwise.
Anyone else have a particularly interesting accent? Cossie, do you have a Scottish accent?
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I have this southern drawl that just gets so much worse when I'm around my Alabama cousins....reeeeeeal slow kinda working its way to nothing at the end.
Examples of the words:
England is a farn country. (foreign)
I'm busy, dootcher yourself. (do it)
I worked hard all day and I'm flat out tarred. (tired)
Would you hold this Dr. Pepper ferme? (for me)
And personally speaking, there's nothing more WHOAAA!! than a killer British accent
Jamie
"You have your way. I have my way. As far as the right way, the correct way, and the only way - it doesn't exist."
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I live in the south but I dont have an accent.....they do
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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marc
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Tarred = tired ,,,,,,,,, i think
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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grasshopper wrote:
> and where words come from..........
>
> Tell me what these words mean and trust me, I'm only making fun of myself
>
farn = Foreign
dootcher =
impatikler = In Particular
Jawjuh = Georgia
Norlins = New Orleans
meerfuraminit = Come here for a minute
tarred = Tired
ferme = For Me
ninnyhammer =
churchyard cough
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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... are available only to the select few!
Actually, although I originally had a lowland Scots accent, I have lived South of the Border so long that it's all but disappeared - though it re-appears whenever I visit Scotland or I drink too much! I can do a fair impression of the Tyneside accent (Why ye buggor, hinny!) but my normal speaking voice is pretty neutral, though with short Northern vowels. I would take a bath after rolling in the grass, whilst Deeej would take a baarth after rolling in the graahs!
I once worked with a guy who had made the local accents of County Durham his lifetime passion. His skill was uncanny; after a minute's conversation he could pinpoint where someone came from to within two or three miles. He told me it was all done by key words. The use and pronunciation of various words can be mapped pretty accurately, and the map for each word is different, so you can come up with a location by applying a little basic set theory.
As an example, most vowels, when followed by two consonants, are short in most Northern accents - so that 'faster' will be pronounced with a short 'a' as in 'cap', but in Southern England it would be pronounced with a long 'a' as in 'start'. However, in Cumbria, North-East England and Yorkshire, the words 'master' and 'plaster' are pronounced with a long 'a'; whilst in Lancashire (and especially in the Fylde area) they are pronounced with a short 'a'. So if someone speaks with a fairly neutral accent, but with short vowels, he's from the North. Get him to use 'master' or 'plaster' in conversation and, if the 'a' is still short, you have a Lancastrian. Why anyone should actually WANT to have a Lancastrian is difficult to imagine - but then again, 'Queer as Folk' was sent in Manchester!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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... just remember that it isn't the cough that carries you off, its the coffin they carry you off in!
Of course, that'll be meaningless to the rebellious colonials, 'cos they insist upon calling coffins caskets - whereas WE know that caskets are little boxes in which to keep valuables!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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I beg to differ, caskets are what your burried in, you keep valuables in a safe. 
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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